A note on the reasonableness of PERT hypotheses

DOI10.1016/S0167-6377(02)00151-7zbMath1093.62517OpenAlexW2008032946MaRDI QIDQ1870007

Salvador Cruz Rambaud, Rafael Herreríás-Pleguezuelo, José García Pérez

Publication date: 4 May 2003

Published in: Operations Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0167-6377(02)00151-7

zbMATH Keywords

Beta distributionPERTConstant varianceMesokurtic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact distribution theory in statistics (62E15) Statistical distribution theory (62E99)

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• The parameters of the classical PERT. An assessment of its success
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